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Goals. Intentions. Measurable Outcomes. Whatever you want to call it, our sixth of seven spiritual practices for living as the flow is to be clear about what it is we desire to create. Join us on Sunday when we discuss how to be clear in our desire.

Sunday Service

April 24^th, 9:30 am

Fancy Ruff-Wagner

Naming Our Good

Board Training

April 24^th, after Service

Fancy's Home

Sunday Service

May 1st, 9:30 am

Robert Spiegel

The Lunatic is in My Head

Music Ministry - Second Saturday Community CoffeeHouse

Saturday, May 14th, 6:00 - 9:30

Headliner: Merlettes

Opener: Dennis Russell

MC: Anne-Marie Lax

Sponsor: Community member Patricia Vansell

Join us for this great night of music and fun!

Come on down for coffee or tea, treats, and a wholesome family night in a listening room environment where new and seasoned performers can offer up their songs and stories to an attentive, all-ages audience. The House opens at 6 pm, music begins at 6:30.

FREE! Love Offerings will be accepted.

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Inspiration from Unity

Join Unity in April for 30 days of inspiration for living an abundant and meaningful life. Whether you are seeking "how-to" help on relationships, forgiveness, health issues, realizing your dreams, or other spiritual practices, these articles, quotes, podcasts, and videos provide insights with proven Unity principles.

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More Inspiration from Unity

Meister Eckhart on Mindful Meditation

Meister Eckhart was a late-thirteenth- and early-fourteenth-century preacher and mystic, yet like Rumi and Hafiz, he remains relevant today. He speaks to so many and touches people's hearts. In this short excerpt from his new book Meister Eckhart: A Mystic Warrior for Our Times, bestselling author Matthew Fox shares his insights on letting go.

How do we get to that silence, to that Source of all things? Meister Eckhart calls on the story of Jacob in Genesis (28:20): "'Jacob the patriarch came to a certain place and wanted to rest in the evening, when the sun had gone down.'...He says: 'To a place'; he does not name it. The place is God. God has no name of His own, and is the place and position of all things and is the natural place of all creatures." We commune with the Godhead, which is natural for us: "The Godhead alone is the place of the soul, and is nameless....'Jacob rested in that place,' which is nameless. By not being named, it is named. When the soul comes to the nameless place, it takes its rest. There, where all things have been God in God, the soul rests. That place of the soul which is God is nameless. I say God is unspoken." It is in repose, at night, in silence, that God's love burns the hottest. "In a God-loving soul it is evening. There is nothing there but repose, where a person is thoroughly penetrated and made illuminated with divine love....The soul remains in the light of God and in the silence of pure repose, and that is evening: then it is hottest in the divine love." Darkness holds its special power and its special attraction. God likes a no-place, a no-where, and the soul wants to commune with God there as well. "As long as the soul is anywhere, it is not in the greatest of God which is nowhere." After all, "God is nowhere....God is not here or there, neither in time or place." Christ, too, is to be found there in a place of nothingness. "Where is Christ sitting? He is sitting nowhere. Whoever seeks him anywhere will not find him. His smallest part is everywhere, his highest part is nowhere."

The journey is a journey inward, for that is where the human spirit is most at home and so too is God. Eckhart says, "God is a being who always lives in the innermost. Therefore the spirit is always searching within. But the will goes outward toward what it loves."

How do we go about this journey inward to a nameless and unknown place? Eckhart says, "The Word lies hidden in the soul, unknown and unheard unless room is made for it in the ground of hearing, otherwise it is not heard. All voices and sounds must cease and there must be pure stillness within, a still silence." To meditate is to collect ourselves. "The soul must be collected and drawn up straight and must be a spirit. There God works and there all works are pleasing to God. No work ever pleases God unless it is wrought there." We learn to focus, for "the more the soul is collected, the narrower it is, and the narrower it is, the wider." Great things happen in this place of silence, which is "the doorway of God's house....In the silence and peace...there God speaks in the soul and utters Himself completely in the soul. There the Father begets His Son and has such delight in the Word and is so fond of it, that He never ceases to utter the Word all the time, that is to say beyond time."

The journey inward into the dark and silence is a trip into simplicity, Eckhart says, a letting go of all things - all forms and images and memories - into the "essential mind of God, of which the pure and naked power is understanding, which the masters term receptive. Now mark my words! It is only above all this that the soul grasps the pure absoluteness of free being, which has no location, which neither receives nor gives: it is bare 'beingness' that has been stripped of all being and all beingness. There it takes hold of God as in the ground of His being, where He is beyond all being." One lets go of all desire, which is so "far reaching" and measureless. "All that understanding can grasp, all that desire can desire, that is not God. Where understanding and desire end, there it is dark, and there God shines." The Word of God is heard there, for "to hear this Word in the Father (where all is stillness), a person must be quite quiet and wholly free from all images and from all forms. Indeed, a person ought to be so true to God that nothing whatever can gladden or sadden him or her. She should take all things in God, just as they are there." Then God will do the work and humans need only not resist. "If only the soul would stay within, all things would be present to it." Solitude is tasted, for there the soul "must be alone as God is alone."

Matthew Fox is the author of over 30 books including The Hidden Spirituality of Men, Christian Mystics, and most recently Meister Eckhart. A preeminent scholar and popularizer of Western mysticism, he became an Episcopal priest after being expelled from the Catholic Church by Cardinal Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI. You can visit him at www.matthewfox.org.

A Course in Miracles

Our Movie Screening of A Chorus in Miracles went very well. After the movie there was a discussion about starting A Course In Miracles Study Group. If you are interested in this, please email Fancy at admin@unityemtns.org. No details have been decided and we are going to use email to set a date and time that works for all.

This is still on the To-Do list. In the meantime, check out A Chorus in Miracles, The Musical Experience where you can get the text with music (paid item) or the Workbook with music (free item).

Thank You Shoppers!

Thanks to those of you who start your online shopping on the Impact Shopping/USCEM page. This month we received a payment of $38.25 at no extra cost to you. So far this year we've earned $70.56. Be sure you bookmark this page and always start your online shopping there so we can earn some passive income. Put it in your bookmark bar and click it before you go to Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart.com, and more! Just always click it and then put your store name in the search on the page. Thank you!

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ESSENTRICS

Essentrics is a unique program that rapidly changes the shape of your body through simultaneous stretching and strengthening exercises. This workout develops strong and flexible muscles with immediate changes to your posture. ESSENTRICS is even smarter than that - it goes beyond changing just the look of your body; it also cares about how you feel in your body. With a combination of dynamic and fluid movements, ESSENTRICS improves circulation, promotes rehabilitation, and unlocks tight muscles. If you want to feel energized, positive, and healthy, then ESSENTRICS is for you. Meets at the church M/W from 5:30 - 6:30. Contact Kimberly Woodring for more information (or call 575-749-0025).

Massage Services for Members:

Licensed massage therapist Kara Skeberdis is offering massage sessions at her studio in Cedar Crest. Hour and half hour sessions are $40/$25 for church members and friends, and $50/$30 for the general public. Please call Kara to schedule your session at 443-745-0406, or email her at shiatsu.Kara@gmail.com. Kara has over 25 years of experience and specializes in relaxation, deep tissue and acupressure techniques.

Interfaith Social Action Opportunity @ Woods End Church

3^rd Friday of each month 3:00 pm - 6:00ish

Help distribute food to the hungry in our community. For more info, contact Eugene (or call 286-4981).

Prayer


Please add the following people to your prayer/meditation practice: (updated weekly) USCEM Dawn H. (healing) Jeannette P. (healing) Brussels, Belgium Tyler (guidance) Lahore, Pakistan Charles & Family (comfort) Anne-Marie (perfect employment)	uPray uPray, a free prayer app from Silent Unity, is now available. uPray is available for Apple iOS 7.0 or later and Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) or later. With the app you can submit a prayer request to Silent Unity, listen to the month's meditation and the Prayer for Protection, and read affirmations across a broad list of topics.	"Silent Unity. How may we pray with you?" Do you have a prayer request? There are several ways to contact Silent Unity, the 24/7-prayer ministry: Call: 1-800-NOW-PRAY (669-7729) International: 01-816-969-2000 Write: Silent Unity, 1901 NW Blue Parkway, Unity Village, MO 64065-0001 Or use our online prayer request form.

Support Your Spiritual Center


Smith's Community Rewards Smith's Community Rewards makes fundraising for USCEM easy...simply by using your Smith's Rewards Card at any Smith's! There is no cost to enroll, and enrollment will not affect your fuel points or coupon discounts. You must have a registered Smith's Rewards Card to participate. If you do not, you can apply for one at Customer Service. If you don't know your number because you use your phone number at the register, you can call 800-576-4377 and select option 4. You must link your card to USCEM online. If you have an online account already, go to the website below, sign in, and click on your name to go to your account. Scroll down and edit the Community Rewards section. Enter our NPO number or our name and select us from list and click on "Enroll". If you don't have an online account, you must click "Register" in the upper right corner on the website. Sign up for a Smith's Rewards Account by entering your email address, creating a password. Enter your zip code in the "Your location", then by selecting your favorite store, and agreeing to the terms and conditions. A message to check your email inbox will appear, Check your email account, you must click on the link within the body of the email. Click on "Sign in" located in the upper right corner and use your email address and password to proceed to the next step. Click on your name to go to your Account. In Account Summary click on "Edit" Rewards Card and input your Smith's rewards card number. Confirm your information. Scroll down and edit the Community Rewards section. Enter our NPO number or our name and select us from list and click on "Enroll". Go to Smith's Community Rewards to Enroll or Register/Enroll Our NPO number: 24564	Let Your Online Shopping Support Us Whether you shop at Amazon, Walmart.com, Itunes, or many other online retailers, your purchases can help support USCEM. Always start on the USCEM Shopping Site. From there you go to your favorite retailer and a percentage of your purchases will be sent to us later - at no extra cost to you. The average amount paid to us is a little more than 5% of your purchases. Bookmark this URL and always start here. Then go shopping. http://impactshopping.com/USCEM/ So far we've earned $32.31 in 2016! We didn't earn anything in 2015 - although we earned $94 in 2014. It's probably because people weren't starting at the shopping page. Please do this - it costs you nothing extra and is an easy habit to adopt. Go to the USCEM Shopping Page	The Law of Giving and Receiving By Ernest Holmes Everything in Nature moves in circles. What goes out must come back. Unless the seed is sown it cannot bear fruit. There must be a planting time for every harvest. Who gives all receives all. Who refuses to give, limits the possibility of the greater good returning to him. Love and you will be loved. Extend joy and you will become more joyful. The ancient Talmud says, "God will doubly guide the already guided" and Jesus, the greatest of the great, said, "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." (Luke 6:38) We do not give because God needs the gift but because the giving increases, broadens and deepens the life of the giver. Nor shall we give from the standpoint of duty. The universe refuses to bargain with us. It already has given us everything it has. But it also has provided that the gift of life can be received in its fullness only as it flows through us to the fullness of others. How wonderful is this exact balance which God and nature keep; how perfect is the law of God and how glorious the opportunity to join with the infinite Giver in the givingness of the self to the joy of life! Letter to Members & Friends Conscious Giving Guide Conscious Giving Commitment Card

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Fancy Ruff-Wagner
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